Violence Prevention Climate in General Adult Inpatient Mental Health Units: Validation study of the VPC-14.

International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
Geoffrey L DickensNutmeg Hallett

Abstract

Ward social climate is an important contributor to patient outcomes in inpatient mental health services. Best understood as the general 'vibe' or 'atmosphere' on the unit, social climate has been subject to a significant research aimed at its quantification. One aspect of social climate, the violence prevention climate, describes the extent to which the ward is perceived as safe and protective against the occurrence of aggression by both the patients and the staff. The violence prevention climate scale (VPC-14), developed in a UK forensic setting, was used in this study in a test of its validity in an Australian general mental health setting. The VPC-14 was administered across eleven wards of one metropolitan Local Health District in Sydney, NSW. N = 213 valid responses from nursing staff and patients were returned (response rates 23.4 and 24.3%, respectively). The VPC-14 demonstrated good internal reliability, and convergent validity was evidenced through moderate correlations with the WAS's anger and aggression subscale and the GMI total score. Concurrent validity was demonstrated by expected staff-patient differences in VPC-14 rating and by correlations between incidents of conflict and containment on wards and the VPC-14 ra...Continue Reading

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